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#799 Un-brr-lievable Winter Winners · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for the
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Speaker 1: time poor parent who just wants answers.
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't understand smalls.
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Speaker 3: As soon as you melt your marshmallows, you just stick
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Speaker 3: them between the biscuits and the chocolate melts. You've got
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Speaker 3: gooey marshmallow and you've got this beautiful wheat biscuit.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing gross, just gross.
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Speaker 1: And now here's the stars of our show, my mom
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Speaker 1: and dad.
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Speaker 2: Hello, this is doctor Justin Colson. I'm the founder of
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Speaker 2: Having Families dot com dot au. I'm here with Kylie,
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Speaker 2: my wife from under our six kids, and we are,
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Speaker 2: like so many of you, struggling at the moment because
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Speaker 2: it's the middle of winter school holidays, or at least
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Speaker 2: it is in Queensland. I know that there's a couple
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Speaker 2: of states where school holidays are just around the corner.
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Speaker 2: But it's cold, the day's daylight hours are shorter, and frankly,
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Speaker 2: a lot of us have still got work to do.
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Speaker 2: We can't just stop work because the kids aren't at school,
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Speaker 2: and it gets kind of tricky. Kylie, I came across
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Speaker 2: as statch team spends between seven and nine hours each
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Speaker 2: day using electronics. Wow, seven to nine hours. So we're
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Speaker 2: talking school holidays, parents are working, the kids are like, well,
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Speaker 2: just figure it out for yourselves, kids, And so that's
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Speaker 2: what the kids are doing seven to nine hours for
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Speaker 2: the average team in front of a screen. That means
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Speaker 2: that they're likely not getting the recommended minimum sixty minutes
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Speaker 2: of exercise per day that they're supposed to be getting.
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Speaker 2: I know that a whole lot of Australian parents just
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Speaker 2: laughed into their cupa as I said, sixty minutes of
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Speaker 2: exercise per day for my teenager. So I thought, it's
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Speaker 2: tricky at the moment. It's really tricky to deal with
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Speaker 2: kids and school holidays and cold weather and being inside
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Speaker 2: more than outside. I just thought, let's have a fun conversation,
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Speaker 2: a brainstorming session. Let's just chuck a whole lot of
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Speaker 2: stuff out there about what we can do when it's
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Speaker 2: cold and we can't always be fully present for the kids,
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Speaker 2: so they don't climb the walls or stare at a
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Speaker 2: screen all day because we know that's not healthy for
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Speaker 2: them to.
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Speaker 3: Get into character. I'm sitting in our studio with a
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Speaker 3: blanket wrapped around me because I'm freezing.
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Speaker 2: I love that you called our studio. It's like it's
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Speaker 2: just a well, it's a room that doubles us with
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Speaker 2: concrete wall, multiple other things.
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Speaker 3: And it was warm when I got here, but it's
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Speaker 3: not so warm anymore.
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Speaker 2: And I'm wearing a jumper. In fact, it was so
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Speaker 2: cold when I came to work this morning. And they're
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Speaker 2: in mind, folks, we are on the Sunshine Coast right,
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Speaker 2: so we have a low tolerance for cold weather. In fact,
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Speaker 2: I was on call with a client just yesterday and
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Speaker 2: this is so embarrassing. I can't believe. I was complaining
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Speaker 2: about how cold it was. And then I remember that
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Speaker 2: I was speaking to some people in Melbourne and they
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Speaker 2: said it has been cold today and I said, I know,
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Speaker 2: and then I opened up my weather app. I said,
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Speaker 2: it's twenty degrees right now, but it says that it
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Speaker 2: feels like nineteen and it just cracked up. They're like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's five degrees right now here in Melbourne. I was, oh, sorry.
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Speaker 3: So I'm just a little bit like Sammy and Jason,
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Speaker 3: our Lighthouse parents on Parental Guidance, who when they got
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Speaker 3: to Glenworth Elly said, yeah, we don't really do much.
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Speaker 2: We don't do mud and cold and we don't do that.
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Speaker 2: So I've actually just put them on. I've got my gloves,
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Speaker 2: my cycling gloves that I wore to the office before
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Speaker 2: we recorded this, because I just don't I don't do cold.
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Speaker 2: I don't do cold anyway. So likely your kids only
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Speaker 2: that they like the heater. They like being indoors when
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Speaker 2: it was winter when you were a kid growing up,
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Speaker 2: before we do the brainstorm, and this is part of
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Speaker 2: the brainstorm, I guess what did you do? And I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about from the age of maybe twelve up. Let's
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Speaker 2: go with your adolescent years, because I can't remember what
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Speaker 2: I did before that. What did you do?
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Speaker 3: Well, I was going to say, if you were talking younger,
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Speaker 3: I grew up in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: And that's cold. Yeah it was old.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't actually know it was cold.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 3: So I have vivid memories of me swinging on our
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Speaker 3: swing set in the backyard with the wind blowing in
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Speaker 3: my singlet top and little shorts in the middle of winter.
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Speaker 3: And it wasn't until we moved over to Australia and
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Speaker 3: then it was so hot. I'd never experienced heat like
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Speaker 3: I did when we moved to Brisbane.
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Speaker 2: Not in winter of course.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, that the winters felt way colder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, because we get such warm.
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Speaker 3: We kind of make a joke that Australian summers thinned
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Speaker 3: our blood. I just can't deal with the cold anymore.
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Speaker 3: So I would think in my teenage years, I just
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Speaker 3: hibernated inside under the blankets, did so much.
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Speaker 2: Didn't get that physical activity there.
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Speaker 3: No, definitely not. No. I used to love writing in
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Speaker 3: my journal and kind of doing craft and stuff, so
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Speaker 3: I would have spent a lot of time doing that.
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Speaker 2: How did we ever end up together? I don't know,
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Speaker 2: because my winters once I turned thirteen, I was thirteen
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Speaker 2: years old, I just started surfing, and my winters and summers,
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Speaker 2: my every weekend, my every school holiday was just I'm
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Speaker 2: going to catch a bus to the beach and I'm
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Speaker 2: going to go surfing. So I put on the wetsuit
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Speaker 2: and go surfing. And it didn't matter what the weather was,
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Speaker 2: I just surfed and that was literally it. There's nothing
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Speaker 2: else that I did. Maybe a bike ride now, and
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Speaker 2: I was totally outside and totally physical all the time.
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Speaker 3: So, you know, my favorite kind of weather.
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Speaker 2: Warm weather where we can be at the beach and
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Speaker 2: in the water.
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Speaker 3: No, I actually love this temperature right now, as long
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Speaker 3: as I'm moving my body right, yes, you're going to
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Speaker 3: get a warm body. I actually love the feel of
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Speaker 3: that crisp air touching my skin.
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of parents that do not have
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Speaker 2: teenage sons who serve, and a lot of parents who
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Speaker 2: do not want their kids, male or female, to be
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Speaker 2: hanging out of the room just writing in their journal
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Speaker 2: or staring at a screen. So let's dive into a
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Speaker 2: whole lot of fun winter activities for our kids that
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Speaker 2: they can do either with or without us, to stay
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Speaker 2: sane through these holiday weeks. What have you got written
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Speaker 2: down on your list? I want to hear your listen,
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Speaker 2: then I'm going to share a couple of mine, or
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Speaker 2: maybe we'll sort of Well, you didn't.
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Speaker 3: Quit me very well because I kind of just assumed
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Speaker 3: that this was going to be parentally navigated. I didn't
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Speaker 3: know you about doing it on their own. So mine
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Speaker 3: probably require a little depending on the age of the kids.
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Speaker 3: Obviously mine require a little bit of supervision. But like
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Speaker 3: I said, I actually I actually think embracing the cold
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Speaker 3: can be so much fun. But you've got to be
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Speaker 3: prepped for it. You don't show up at the snow
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Speaker 3: in your sandals and singlet top.
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Speaker 2: Sure, so the more prepared.
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Speaker 3: You are, the more you can enjoy it. So, you know,
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Speaker 3: having a brazier or using a big wock in the
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Speaker 3: backyard and creating a little fire, all rugged up and
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Speaker 3: you wear your beanies.
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Speaker 2: That was the first thing I was going to say,
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Speaker 2: as well, it's a nighttime activity. But get your kids,
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Speaker 2: even if they're four, five, six seven, get the kids
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Speaker 2: to come over and stick some marshmallows on some sticks.
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Speaker 2: You can buy a cheap brazier from Bunnings or Kmart
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Speaker 2: and just toast the marshmallows. Let the kids have fun
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Speaker 2: for an hour or so in the backyard.
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Speaker 3: We found a cheap way of making smalls that doesn't
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Speaker 3: take any effort at all.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand smores. I know that we've got some
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Speaker 2: American friends and they're all about smalles. I think smores
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Speaker 2: are just disgusting. You love them away. You go just use.
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Speaker 3: Chocolate, wheat and biscuits. So as soon as you melt
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Speaker 3: your marshmallows, you just stick them between the biscuits and
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Speaker 3: the chocolate melts. You've got gooey marshmallow and you've got
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Speaker 3: this beautiful wheat biscuit. It's amazing.
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Speaker 2: Gross, just gross. What else is on your list?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing a camp out inside. So when we were
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Speaker 3: in Brisbane, we had very high ceilings in our laundry
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Speaker 3: and we actually put the tent up inside the living room.
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Speaker 2: We put literally like what is an eight or ten
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Speaker 2: man tent, and we just took up the whole living room.
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Speaker 2: It was really hard getting the tent pegs through the floorboards. No,
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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 3: We didn't do that, and one of those pop up
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Speaker 3: tents and it was great and the kids thought it
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Speaker 3: was amazing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we literally just camped in the living room with
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Speaker 2: the big, great ceilings.
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Speaker 3: Well most of us don't have the option of doing that,
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Speaker 3: and you know, moving our finitshry around that much. So
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Speaker 3: you know, having a camp out, you know when kids
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Speaker 3: used to make blanket forts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, have a camp out like that.
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Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't matter how old you are.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing stopping there's literally nothing stopping you though, putting
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Speaker 2: up like your two men or your form tent in
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Speaker 2: the living room. Just push the lounge chairs back and
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Speaker 2: put the tent down and sleep on the air mattresses,
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Speaker 2: or drag the kids mattresses out of their beds and
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Speaker 2: stick them in the tent. It's a little bit of hassle,
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Speaker 2: but it's so much fun. And the tent isn't going
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Speaker 2: to buy away. You don't actually need ten pegs when
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Speaker 2: you're putting it up in the living room.
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Speaker 3: You can put their conditions, that's right, but.
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Speaker 2: It still feels like a campout. Or if you want
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Speaker 2: to be really brave and you're luckily lucky enough to
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Speaker 2: have enough space in the backyard, go on camp out
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Speaker 2: in the backyard, or let the kids camp out in
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Speaker 2: the backyard. It's one of my favorite school holiday things.
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Speaker 2: When I was I think I was probably about twelve,
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Speaker 2: maybe eleven, is we would literally put a tent up,
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Speaker 2: a two man tent up in the backyard. I'd do
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Speaker 2: it with one of my mates, and then we'd walk
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Speaker 2: down of the shops and we'd buy I don't know,
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Speaker 2: two dollars worth of hubber Bubba and some chocolate buds
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Speaker 2: and whatever other treats we wanted, and then we just
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Speaker 2: we'd camp out in the backyard tent chewing hubber Bubba
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Speaker 2: all my long and talking about life the universe and everything,
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Speaker 2: and I mean it was just so awesome and it
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Speaker 2: felt really safe as well because we were at and
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Speaker 2: the universe.
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Speaker 3: I just cut believe you just said that. Yeah, life
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Speaker 3: and the unifse you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Girls probably almost certainly all night long, and so doing
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing, like the camp out inside or
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Speaker 2: in the backyard, it's totally safe, it's totally convenient, but
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Speaker 2: the kids feel so awesome. It's just so novel.
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Speaker 3: I also had, you know, having your own like private
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Speaker 3: little paint and sip sessions.
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Speaker 2: Paint and sip.
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Speaker 3: Yeah with the kids, I have a sip of a
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Speaker 3: hot chocolate okay in the cold.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Sure. There's just something really raw about being able to
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Speaker 3: do that and not have any expectations about the outcome
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Speaker 3: and just yeah, getting creative together.
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to add to that. Well, as you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm neither artistic nor into sitting still and sipping a
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Speaker 2: hot chocolate. But I don't think that there's anything wrong
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Speaker 2: with saying to the kids, depending on their age, hey
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Speaker 2: here's a couple of bucks, four or five bucks, go
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Speaker 2: down to the cafe and buy yourself a hot chocolate,
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Speaker 2: or why don't I walk with you, if you've got
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Speaker 2: the capacity, walk them down to the cafe and just
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Speaker 2: this is about time together. It's about getting out of
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Speaker 2: the house and moving your body. All right, let's talk
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Speaker 2: about some other ideas that we've got for getting through
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Speaker 2: the winter chill. When the kids are on holidays, you're
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Speaker 2: at work, you're busy, you've got stuff to do. The
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Speaker 2: kids are staring electronics or climbing the walls. What else
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Speaker 2: is on your list? Let's do some rapid fire.
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Speaker 3: So recently, my mom started a new hobby. She's making
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Speaker 3: beanies for cancer patients. And it's all done on a
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Speaker 3: ring loom and use the crochet hook, so it's very
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Speaker 3: very simple. It's pretty much winding wool around this loom
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Speaker 3: and then using the crochet hook to just kind of
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Speaker 3: pull off your threads. And the girls were watching her
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Speaker 3: do it and they decided they wanted to give it
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Speaker 3: a go. I was really shocked because it's not something
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Speaker 3: that you see kids doing these days. But Annie got
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Speaker 3: so excited about it. She's halfway through making her first beanie. Well,
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Speaker 3: and my mum also had this all pom pom maker,
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Speaker 3: so Lily got involved making the pompoms to go on
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Speaker 3: top of the beanies, and so it just got me
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Speaker 3: thinking about what's a new hobby that you can introduce
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Speaker 3: your children to, depending on their age, depending on their gender, Like,
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Speaker 3: what's something that they might enjoy doing that they've never
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Speaker 3: done before.
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Speaker 2: Now there's a challenge with this because if you say
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Speaker 2: to your kids, can you think of a new hobby
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Speaker 2: you'd like to try, They're not going to have any
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Speaker 2: ideas at all. So you probably need to do a
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Speaker 2: bit of legwork around this. But the resource that you've
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Speaker 2: just highlighted that is perhaps most valuable here is grandparents.
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Speaker 2: Like school, holidays are tricky, it's cold, you're gonna have
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Speaker 2: to be indoorsed for some of the time. But if
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Speaker 2: grandparents can be involved, especially if they're teaching the kids
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Speaker 2: some art, or if they're teaching them some card tricks,
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Speaker 2: or they're teaching them a new craft, or they're teaching
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Speaker 2: them something, maybe they're just reading to them. Just doing
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Speaker 2: those kinds of activities with grandparents awesome, awesome stuff. I
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Speaker 2: love it.
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Speaker 3: A couple of terms ago, Emily started doing beads at
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Speaker 3: bead club at school in the lunch break, and she
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Speaker 3: started bringing home all of these little trinkets. She was
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Speaker 3: making mostly key rings and things, and so when her
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Speaker 3: birthday came around, I thought, you know what, she's actually
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Speaker 3: really enjoying this. I'll get her some beads. So I
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Speaker 3: spent twenty dollars on this box of beads, and I
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Speaker 3: think she's made probably I don't know, sixty seventy dollars
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Speaker 3: from this one box of beads because she's been so
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Speaker 3: intent on making her own little creations. And then she
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Speaker 3: goes down to our streak corner and she bugs all
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Speaker 3: of the neighbors that are walking their animals.
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Speaker 2: Whoever walks past, would you like to buy one of
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Speaker 2: my necklaces of bracelets?
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Speaker 3: And she's got it all worked out. These ones are
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Speaker 3: two dollars and these ones are three dollars, and our
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Speaker 3: beautiful neighbors.
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Speaker 2: And getting taken to the cleaner is by a nine
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Speaker 2: year old with a sweet smile.
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Speaker 3: Keep buying her things.
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Speaker 2: They just can't say no.
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Speaker 3: But what I love about it? And this kind of
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Speaker 3: I guess it's twofold. She's been introduced to a new
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Speaker 3: craft that she loves, but now she's utilizing it to
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Speaker 3: be industrious in other ways. And so what's something that
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Speaker 3: your kids can do. Do they like baking, and is
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Speaker 3: baking something that they can then go around and sell.
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Speaker 2: There's so many ideas. I'm going to share a couple
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Speaker 2: of other quick ones as well. We've already talked about
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Speaker 2: the sleepovers, but I love the idea of a slumber party,
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Speaker 2: whether it's inside or outside, whether it's a tent or not.
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Speaker 2: Obviously some parents will have some concerns about that. You
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Speaker 2: want to make sure that you're satisfied with the safety.
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Speaker 3: I think a family sleepover it doesn't have to be.
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Speaker 2: And we've done that. We've just filed all the mattresses
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Speaker 2: into the rumpus room and all slept in the same room.
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Speaker 2: You were talking before about the bracelets and the bake
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Speaker 2: sale and that sort of stuff. You can actually create
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Speaker 2: a fundraiser, get the kids to do stuff to raise funds,
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Speaker 2: or you can get the kids to bake stuff and
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Speaker 2: then take it down to the local fire fieries or
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Speaker 2: the local ambos or the local whatever it is, people
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Speaker 2: who are serving the community of the local surf club
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Speaker 2: and just say hey, we care about you, we really
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Speaker 2: appreciate what you're doing, and get them involved in that.
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Speaker 3: We don't even have to go to that extentee. I
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Speaker 3: was just thinking about the things that Emily likes doing.
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Speaker 3: We've got a whole street of elderly people and I
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Speaker 3: can't believe a whole term's gone by, and for the
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Speaker 3: most I haven't managed to see them. So what can
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Speaker 3: the kids do. Bake some cupcakes, bake some slices, and
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Speaker 3: just go and knock on their door. They don't get
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Speaker 3: a lot of visitors often, and especially in the cold,
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Speaker 3: they're often shut in. So just a really nice something
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Speaker 3: that can get the kids out of the house, but
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Speaker 3: making a difference in people's lives as well.
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Speaker 2: So I feel like we've shared probably ten to fifteen
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Speaker 2: ideas for being active and doing things, either together or
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Speaker 2: the kids working solo on stuff. But lastly, I know
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Speaker 2: that this is all about keeping the kids off screens
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Speaker 2: during the school holidays, but there are some pretty cool
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Speaker 2: things that you can do on screens, and I just
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Speaker 2: want to highlight some of those. So we've got a
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Speaker 2: daughter who is great at guitar, and she's been thinking
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Speaker 2: about guitar lessons for kids in the neighborhood. So maybe
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Speaker 2: you could get your kids to build themselves a website.
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Speaker 2: Like websites are so easy to build nowadays compared to
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Speaker 2: what they used to be so much a it's just
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Speaker 2: drag and drop, plug and play. So the kids could
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Speaker 2: maybe build a website. Maybe if you wanted to be
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Speaker 2: one of those really proactive parents, you could see if
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Speaker 2: they wanted to go and shadow somebody at work, maybe
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Speaker 2: there's somebody who they can follow around for a couple
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Speaker 2: of hours at work one day and not be a pain,
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Speaker 2: but actually watch Now, they have to be teenagers for that.
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Speaker 2: You're not going to send you eight year old to
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Speaker 2: shadow the local lawyer in town or something like that.
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Speaker 2: But you can do that. There's things like movie marathons,
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Speaker 2: like I don't actually, as much as I don't like screens,
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Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with saying, hey, we're going
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Speaker 2: to do a movie marathon, or we're gonna spread our
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Speaker 2: movie marathon. We're gonna watch every Harry Potter movie over
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Speaker 2: the next seven days or something like that. You've got
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Speaker 2: these opportunities where you can just get involved, to take
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Speaker 2: classes online. Maybe maybe the kids can just go and
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Speaker 2: be active. Go and be active with you, Go and
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Speaker 2: be active with friends. They're the other ideas that I
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Speaker 2: had what visit.
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Speaker 3: The local library to books that you've never introduced them
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Speaker 3: to before. I didn't think of that, or like have
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Speaker 3: a puzzle out on the table. You know, it's interesting
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Speaker 3: how hard it feels to actually initiate something. But if
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Speaker 3: you've started a puzzle and it's just sitting on the table,
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Speaker 3: es as kids are going to come along and pick
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Speaker 3: up a piece and put it in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, getting lift off is hard. Once you've got momentum,
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Speaker 2: it's really easy to keep things going.
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Speaker 3: So there's always your favorite board games card.
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Speaker 2: Oh don't even start me, goly gosh, gee whiz. You
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Speaker 2: had to bring that up, and we're not even going
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Speaker 2: to talk about that one. Let's wrap this up. Our
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Speaker 2: time is fast spent. Loads of ideas requires effort. I
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Speaker 2: think that's the main thing, and that's why so many
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Speaker 2: people get stuck.
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Speaker 3: You know the one that we haven't said. No playdates.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all the time, and do as many as
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Speaker 2: you can. It's so good for the kids. But we
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Speaker 2: really hope that these ideas are a little bit of
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Speaker 2: inspo to help you get going with the school. All days.
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Speaker 2: If the weather's a little bit cold and everything's a
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Speaker 2: bit daunting and everything feels hard, there's lots to do.
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Speaker 2: It just requires some time, some efforts, some intention and
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Speaker 2: a good thought start so hopefully and a jumper. That's
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Speaker 2: what we've given you. Yeah, there's no such thing as
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Speaker 2: bad weather. There's just a lack of preparation for the
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Speaker 2: bad weather. We really hope there's been a useful and
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Speaker 2: inspiring way for you to find some winter activities for
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Speaker 2: your kids during the school holidays. Thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for listening to The Happy Family's podcast is produced by
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Speaker 2: Justin Roland from Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our executive producer.
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Speaker 2: For more information about making your family happier, visit happy
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Speaker 2: my brand new book, The Parenting Revolution, in stores now.